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title: "Black-throated Green Warbler"
description: "Setophaga virens — Birds. The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/black-throated-green-warbler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-throated Green Warbler

> Setophaga virens — Birds. The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

- Scientific name: *Setophaga virens*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 29345
- Wikidata: [Q27075940](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075940)
- iNaturalist taxon: [145258](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/145258)

## Names

- en: Black-throated Green Warbler
- de: Grüner Waldsänger
- es: Chipe dorso verde
- fr: Paruline à gorge noire
- it: Dendroica verdastra
- nl: Gele Zwartkeelzanger
- pt: Mariquita-de-garganta-preta / mariquita-verde-de-garganta-preta
- pl: Lasówka czarnogardła

## Countries with the most observations

US (15939), CA (6544), MX (3257), CR (306), HN (248), SV (144), GT (98), NI (76), PA (64), BZ (45), CU (43), BM (17)

## Summary

The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-throated_green_warbler

## Photo

![Black-throated Green Warbler](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-throated-green-warbler/medium.jpg)

Photo: Mark Connolly · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/113210944

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-throated-green-warbler?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).